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Archive for May, 2008
I Love New York
Posted in Gay Parenting/Gay Marriage on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why Run a Political Campaign You Can’t Win (Sympathy for Hillary)
Posted in Personal/Political on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I ran for mayor. Up against a powerful incumbent, totally unknown and with no political experience, I had no hope of winning. One of the local newspapers published an editorial cartoon showing me as a snowball in hell. So why do it? Why bother? Why not sit on the sidelines tossing brickbats at the people [...]
Hillary Rodman Clinton as the next Ted Kennedy
Posted in Personal/Political on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In 1980, he took his bid for the party nomination all the way to the convention floor. When he nominated, he gave one of the greatest speeches in the history of the Democratic party, and then returned to the Senate – a powerful lion of liberalism, respected and loved by people on both sides of the aisle. I wonder, [...]
Same-sex Marriage, California and the Election
Posted in Gay Parenting/Gay Marriage on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
E.J. Graff talks everyone in off the ledge.
Doesn’t the Senator Have Bigger Issues on His Plate?
Posted in Personal/Political on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today Senator Arlen Specter (R-Penn) called for an investigation into allegations that the New England Patriots illegally video taped their opponents. There was, he said, an obvious conflict between the NFL and the public interest. What does professional football have to do with the public interest? How does gridiron action figure into the commonweal? As a nation, we are [...]
What Hillary Brings to the Party
Posted in Personal/Political on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What, is she crazy?! Doesn’t she know that she can’t win? Why doesn’t she quite, go home, throw in the towel? Instead, like the Bride of Chucky, she’s unfazed by the knife wound, the shot gun blast and the two ton safe dropped on her head. On to West Virginia!
She can’t win the nomination. She knows [...]
Homework Smackdown
Posted in Personal/Political on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Until this morning, I’d been able to help my son who is in second grade with his homework. But at breakfast, after he dutiful wrote each of his vocabulary words three times, we came to the part of the assignment where he had to use these precious new words in sentences. This weeks spelling words are [...]
